Name: Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death
SKU: 65794853
Price: 218252.00 COP
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Author: Jessica Barr
ISBN: 9780268210946

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Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University of Notre Dame Press

Autor

Jessica Barr

Año

2026

N° páginas

277

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2 cm

ISBN13

9780268210946

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death

Jessica Barr (Autor) · University of Notre Dame Press · Tapa Dura

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Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death investigates the tension between death as necessary for bringing about union with God and as the end of life on earth. For medieval Christians, only death could offer complete union with God. For medieval women in particular, death was figured as a desirable end to their embodied lives; at least, this is the story told by the clergymen who typically wrote their biographies. Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death questions this assumption and studies visionary narratives, treatises, and spiritual reflections by and about medieval Christian women from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries to reveal how these women understood their own deaths and how their depictions conformed to or departed from the stories told about them. Rather than focusing on externalities like rituals, revenants, or miracles, Jessica Barr instead tackles the desire for death from the inside, seeking to elucidate the ways in which medieval people anticipated or experienced biological death on a personal level. In narrating their spiritual lives within the framework of deeply held Christian beliefs, these medieval women mystics illustrate how theology and experience converge—and, not infrequently, diverge.